languet meaning
EN
[ˈlæŋɡwɪt] - NounPLlanguets
- A tongue-shaped implement, specifically.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- If there is music for this it’s windy strings and reed sections standing in bright shirt fronts and black ties all along the beach, a robed organist by the breakwater—itself broken, crusted with tides—whose languets and flues gather and shape the resident spooks here.
- (archaic) A narrow tongue of land.
- (zoology) A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.
- A tongue-shaped implement, specifically.
Definition of languet in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
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- Nouns
- en languets
- fr languette
- fr languettes
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "languet" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.